Fixing the old way of thinking…

Mark placed the barrel of his 9MM handgun into the slide, making sure the barrel hood was flush. He then replaced the recoil spring, seating it securely into the weapon’s lower semi-circular notch. Beaded with sweat, he pulled the slide to the rear of the receiver and heard a familiar click. A sigh pursed his lips and he released the slide, resetting the trigger mechanism. Mark pointed the freshly cleaned gun at his own reflection, and pulled the trigger. “Oh, how I love that sound,” he said, as he popped in a fully loaded magazine. “Now, let’s go kill somebody.”

“When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we don’t see the one that has opened for us.”

– Helen Keller

This advice is something I still have problems following. If something bad happens to me, or if that proverbial door gets slammed onto my foot, I focus on that particular door. Why did this door close on me? Why Lord, why? The whole time, a door had opened up for me right next to it, surrounded by neon arrows and a blinking “Enter Here” sign. Someday…

“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.”

– Stephen Hawking

I think this is a very true statement. Mankind, or at least a few talented hackers, have created a way to wreak havoc on the one thing we have grown dependent on in the Age of Technology. Without computers, we’d be back in the Stone Age as far as efficiency is concerned. Created destruction in our own image. Yep. Sounds about right.

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“You don’t make history by following the rules, you make it by seizing the moment.”

–Sebastian Caine (Kevin Bacon), from “Hollow Man”

This quote is absolutely perfect. We all should “seize” the moment, carpe diem, EVERY day. Missed opportunities are wasted opportunities. If we are going to buck the system, blaze our own trails and make a place in history for the NEW generation, then we cannot afford to waste our chances. Let’s do this, people. Let’s take on the old, stodgy, ethnocentristic psychology of today, and Shift the Paradigm to where it SHOULD be!

A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline.

This, my friends, is the reason for this blog. We must stand up for what WE believe. The collective consciousness must rise up together and destroy the “old way of thinking.” We are changing as a country, as a people. We must acknowledge this shift in common psychology, embrace it and be disciplined enough to understand it.

About

I am a simple man with a less-than-simple psyche. I’m a loyal friend, voracious writer and lover of all things celluloid. Looking through tainted eyes with a voice full of spin, I am pledging to show you the real world as I see it. If you believe, then welcome into my 8th Circle of Sarcasm. If not, that’s OK too. We’ll just talk about you behind your back. Or you’ll become the villain in my next manuscript. Or you’ll be Ensign Wearing Red Uniform #3 in the next Star Trek movie. Whatever happens, you’re always welcome here.